BOROUGH SANITATION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13322, 6 March 1914, Page 2

BOROUGH SANITATION.

(To the Editor of the Herald.) .Sir, A correspondent m your paper of. to-night's issue, signing lnWelf Resident of Kaiti," takes exception ;td tho statements made by. Borough Corih- - cilkvrs re what they BaW. on Kaiti beach on Tuesday afternoon. *As a rule "T would not take any notice of a'corrW- 5 pendent; who- is either afraid or ashamv^ ed to sign his name to what he writes;" v but as the gravity of the present 'sitna? . tion does not allow of ariy false' stale-' v ments being made to the public, and: as ; jgotir correspondent- gives us factsthat- Cannot possibly, be correcty ;'-_,»&*_£ ,; . * one£of the Councillors mentionedj take,#i »'#«>" myself to aijs^er -him. ■; ■ He --• .mfcs in' his letteT M„ybii\ that* he took 'Igta/ trouble to gotSSm^to Kaiti beach: to-iiay^ at iow v^ter,-*_Bd . examined- the - -^ OUtf^U drain fromvthe freezing- works, but ' could find nothing wrong with it. That is quite possible, for if we ■ ld6k v/* at; the .tide, table ziptf to-day we -'find* • .that it was' low : water at the .G^Sborrife -J wharf _at 5.'44 a.in., or sbihe consideifr ;'* able time before the^ freezing -wo^ks-^" starts general 1 operations ' for the day^T^ and again 'it? was not low water until after 6 o'clock to-night; or about threehours after your paper is usually m thepublishing room. It was high watei* to-day at noon, so it is quite evident that your correspondent had not the same chance of thoroughly examining ' the drain and surrounding „a'ocks that ; |he Councillors had on Tuesday; after- •' noon, as their visit was * paid ai^r^Qc-' 'ally dead low water* and. also at a time : when the, freezing Works were inVfull .^wing.' But as the statements made 'by '" your correspondent with; regard^ '.to wtjat ' was said by Councillors at| Tdesdliy; night's Council meeting are just' ahew- '• V. .as' accurate as his statement with regarfr ftb his visit to the beach, L? will riotf trouble you at presenting-' icrisweririg ; -.-.' tfterh'^n detail.- But if* your -coTrespdp- v I have missl^^^ytihin|f; 'and "will-sign his nam4->j(^-B*«fi4ext« let- "-" l ter,^.'l will be. pleased < to angler him ! either the colunnts- i **^r^SjK valued -' paper Vor personally. Per^ipi'/'we may-..? find he is 'not quite so dismCerested a> -*" party %vith regard .to the ' freezing works as he would like us to believe he is;.— I anvetc.,,.. ; .' JAMES BROWN, "V '' Borough Cottneiller.^ ["Resident, of Kaiti's" letter: was v :riot; \ ' dated, but as it was : received by'pqat : yesterday 'morning, " was presumably . written the' previous , da 3, .— Ed.] ', - '